METRO BRIEFING | NEW YORK; Manhattan: Cabbies' Group Sues City

By ALAN FEUER

Published: September 20, 2007

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents more than 10,000 taxi drivers in the city, filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to block the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission from installing global positioning system software on all city taxi meters. The suit, filed in Federal District Court, said the software was an invasion of privacy and denied the drivers their constitutionally protected right to their own property. City officials said they could not comment on the suit until they had seen it.